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Performing Whiteness: Postmodern Re/constructions In The Cinema (suny Series In Postmodern Culture) by Professor Gwendolyn Audrey Foster; Marilyn P. Semerad is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Performing Whiteness: Postmodern Re/constructions In The Cinema (suny Series In Postmodern Culture) about?

2003 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitlePerforming Whiteness crosses the boundaries of film study to explore images of the white body in relation to recent theoretical perspectives on whiteness. Drawing on such diverse critical methodologies as postcolonial studies, feminist film criticism, anthropology, and phenomenology, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster examines a wide variety of films from early cinema to the present day in order to explore the ways in which American cinema imposes whiteness as a cultural norm, even as it exposes its inherent instability. In discussions that range from The Philadelphia Story to Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Foster shows that, though American cinema is an all-white construct, there exists the possibility of a healthy resistance to cultural norms of race, gender, sexuality, and class.

Who reads Performing Whiteness: Postmodern Re/constructions In The Cinema (suny Series In Postmodern Culture)?

Author

Professor Gwendolyn Audrey Foster; Marilyn P. Semerad

Publisher

State University Of New York Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780791456279

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Sports, Literary Fiction